The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-11
A STRANGE SUICIDE.
Angelina Conrad Commits Sui
eide Through Fear of Be
ing Hanged.

One of the strangest and most pecu.
liar cases Of suicide ever recorded oc.
Cured on Flat creek, four miles south
of this city, on Thursday night, the
victim being Angelina Conrad,
colOred woman aged twenty-four
years. The body was not found un-
I'll yesterday morning W! en- it was
brought to this city and an inquest
was held which developed the follow
ing facts.
Angelina has been married to Jes-
sic Conrad for about FIVE years, both
are very black and it is said have al
ways lived HAPPILY together and have
three children by their union. For
some days Jessie Conrad has been en-
ployed by Mr.. Shafer getting out ice
for his Flat creek ice house, and Mrs.
Conrad has been in the habit of TAX
ing her husband his dinner at the ice
nouse. Thursday she performed her
usual task and went home. When
the dinner hour arrived Con-
rad began to eat his dinner.
but found something gritty in his
bircuit, he examined it and found
some
PARTICLES OF GLASS IN THE BREAD.
He called the attention of a COM
panion to the fact and he too
pronounced it glass. Conrad having
eaten some of the bread became thor.
oughly alarmed and fastened home
where be taxed his wife with having
attempted to poison him by putting
something in his bread. She denied
the charge when he produced par
ticles of the glass and told her that he
found them in the biscuit. This
seemed TO solve the mystery for her
and she stated that the molasses pitch
er had fallen into the -four chest and
broken. and she supposed the glass
was particles of the pitcher which she
had failed to discover and remove.
Thoroughly alarmed and doubtless
angry. Conrad said, "well 1 have
eaten it and
III DIE YOU'LL BE HUNG"
and getting his horse he came to Sc.
dalia to consult a physician. What
his distracted and alarmed wife did
after he left probably none will ever
know, but Conrad swore that when he
returned home about $50 p. M, he
found his three children fastened in
the house and his wife gone.
The oldest stated that her
mamma had gone out and told
them to stay until she returned. After
searching the premises and calling for
his wife, Conrad became alarmed at
receiving no response and set out to
visit the neighbors, continuing his
search until after midnight, but failed
to find her. James Warren and
James White returned home with him
and the trio remained until day light
when they started out upon her trail
which led into the woods. About an
eighth of a mile from the house they
came upon Mrs. Conrad's body lying
dead in the road, a pistol belonging to
Courad laying by her side and
A BULLET HOLE IN THE LEFT BREAST
which penetrated to the heart, told
only too plainly the fate of the dis
tracted wife and mother, who doubt
less rendered insane with grief and
alarm, had in her demented condition
to die rather than face her
husband or an arrest. Conrad was
overcome with grief at the discovery
and deeply regretted his hasty parting
words but his repentance came too |
ate to save the woman he loved.
Word was at once conveyed to
Coroner Overstreet, who summoned a |
ury and viewed the body which was
brought to this city and placed at Nc
Laughlins undertaking establishment |
whence it was returned to her former |
nome for interment yesterday after
noon, The evidence adduced being
Is above stated and the fact develop
I'd that Conrad and his wife had al |
ways lived happily together, the jury |
'eturned verdict that the deceased |
,ame to her death from q pistol shot |
wound in inflicted by her own hands. |
ROOuS COnductnT. Twanty-Nin